PT-2017-17944 · Mozilla+5 · Thunderbird+5

Sabri Haddouche · Published 2017-12-22 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-7829

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Thunderbird versions prior to 52.5.2

Description The issue allows an attacker to spoof the sender's email address, displaying an arbitrary sender address to the recipient. This is achieved by preceding the real sender's address with a null character in the display string, which prevents the real address from being displayed.

Recommendations For versions prior to 52.5.2, update to version 52.5.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2838

CESA-2018_0061

CVE-2017-7829

DLA-1223-1

DSA-4075-1

MGASA-2017-0477

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:3433-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:3434-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_3434-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

RHSA-2018:0061

RHSA-2018_0061

USN-3529-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 441

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423432 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7829 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7829 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0477.html · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/#CVE-2017-7829 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5098 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5102 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5097 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7847 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7829 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5103 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4075-1 · Vendor Advisory